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		<title>Yet Another Abandoned WordPress Blog?</title>
		<link>http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/yet-another-abandoned-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away for a while, mostly because I&#8217;m working about 55 hours/week in order to keep my business afloat. It will get worse as the holidays approach! My apologies for not posting in so long. Thanks to all for &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/yet-another-abandoned-wordpress-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8447&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Leaves North Korea with Detained U.S. Journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, how did Clinton manage to do that? From Reuters: SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; Former U.S. President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday with two American journalists whose release he secured in a meeting with the hermit state&#8217;s leader, possibly &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/bill-clinton-leaves-north-korea-with-detained-u-s-journalists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8443&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Narcissism Epidemic&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the narcissism epidemic is important because its long-term consequences are destructive to society. American culture&#8217;s focus on self-admiration has caused a flight from reality to the land of grandiose fantasy. We have phony rich people (with interest-only mortgages and &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/the-narcissism-epidemic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8431&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The History of the Asian Fetish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Slate Magazine: The Birth, and Death, of the Asian Babe The sordid history of the sexually exotic East. Written by Johann Hari The porn of the Western world is saturated with the belief that Eastern women are more sexy &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/the-history-of-the-asian-fetish/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8422&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gays are Not &#8220;Godless Christian Bashers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious study: Gays not &#8220;godless&#8221; &#8220;Christian bashers&#8221; Written by Joe Garofoli, SF Gate Politics Blog This breaking news in from The Barna Group &#8212; a chronicler of religious life and habits, particularly of the Christian variety: Gay folks&#8217; attitudes about &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/gays-are-not-godless-christian-bashers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8417&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PETA Tackles Presidential Insecticide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From SFGate (AP): PETA wishes Obama hadn&#8217;t swatted that fly The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he&#8217;s bedeviled by a fly in &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/peta-tackles-presidential-insecticide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8409&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Journalists Sentenced in North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two American women have been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in North Korea, for illegally crossing the DPRK border from China. Demonstrations in the United States and South Korea have called for the release of Laura Ling and &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/american-journalists-sentenced-in-north-korea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8405&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Truthout: A commentary written by George Lakoff The Sotomayor nomination has given radical conservatives new life. They have launched an attack that is nominally aimed at Judge Sotomayor. But it is really a coordinated stealth attack &#8211; on President &#8230; <a href="http://culturepress.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/empathy-sotomayor-and-democracy-the-conservative-stealth-strategy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturepress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4775989&amp;post=8388&amp;subd=culturepress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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